Legal Education
Jan. 31, 2020
UC Berkeley removes ‘Boalt Hall’ from main law school building
The renaming is in response to the discovery of racist scholarship from John Henry Boalt, a 19th Century Oakland attorney.
UC Berkeley School of Law has removed “Boalt Hall” as the name of its main classroom building, campus officials announced Thursday.
The structure is now “The Law Building.”
The renaming is in response to the discovery of racist scholarship from John Henry Boalt, a 19th century Oakland attorney. He was instrumental in passing the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, the first immigration ban in the United ...
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